Yes, today is the day. Happy birthday to me!
Thirty years. Cool, isn’t it?
Since that’s a very round figure, I spent the last few days thinking about the thirty things I learned in my thirty years of life on Earth. Here they are.

1) Help who deserves your support. Just don’t expect something back. Helping someone means acting with no ulterior motives.
2) Be the person your dog thinks you are.3) Treat items and stuff well when you are in a store. There are people who actually work there, so pay them respect.
4) Don’t forget your origins and where you come from. Never.
5) You will be never ready enough when a person you love will be gone forever.6) You can count your true friends on your hand.7) Make always people respect you. Possibly by fair means.
8) World is not fair. We can work every day on our little things to make it better.
9) Surround yourself with people that make you happy.
10) You are the average of the five people you associate with most.
11) Don’t regret anything you did in your life. It’s better to make a mistake than live with the doubts of what you didn’t do.
12) Successful people forgive. And apologise.
13) Perfection is not the main goal, it’s just a tool to improve.
14) Remember to motivate and gratify the people who cooperate with you.
15) Don’t take for granted all the most beautiful and true sentiments you may feel for someone. They need to be looked after and nurtured every day.
16) A tiny lady takes an average of 20 minutes to pee 200ml of water.
17) Unwanted hair doesn’t “fall by itself when growing up” like your mother has always told you. You have to remove it. One. By. one.
18) Flowers are a bad gift because they attract bees, wasps and hornets. And they may sting you.19) Don’t aim too high. Proceed with baby steps, it will make your success sweeter.20) Life is a privilege. Some friends of mine never turned 30.
21) If you ask me a honest opinion, don’t expect me to do the opposite just to flatter you.
22) Pain is not a cause. It’s an alarm bell. Don’t ignore it.
23) Injuries, accidents and diseases are not punishments.
24) Life is too short to read bad books and to eat bad food.
25) If you recover from some issue, don’t thank God. Thank the medical science and the people supporting you.
26) I have a great sense of smell and a Vulcanian hearing. But if I take off my glasses I won’t either smell or hear or see.
27) I thank everyday the dark times at the high school, when I had my brace(s) on. Now I can smile without being ashamed of my teeth.
28) I’m very sorry for all the only children in the world. They will never experience the gift of having a sister or a brother.
29) I still haven’t spent more than what I earned. Maybe because I haven’t bought a home yet.
30) Seriously, what’s in turning thirty? The true is that I haven’t learned anything so far, a part from how to procrastinate by watching THEM.